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Archive Reference (shelfmark) IOR/R Name British Legation to Saudi Arabia, 1930-1947

31. IOR/R/15/1/628

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/628
Title:
File 82/27 III (F 84) APOC: Qatar Oil
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence and notes of meetings between the Political Agent at Bahrain and the Political Resident at Bushire, the India Office in London and ‘Abdullāh bin Jāsim Āl Thānī, Shaikh of Qatar, the Foreign Office, the Anglo-Persian Oil Company (APOC) and H.M.'s Ministry at Jed...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
22 Feb 1934-30 Apr 1934
Extent:
1 volume (319 folios)

32. IOR/R/15/1/642

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/642
Title:
File 86/1 VI (D 97) Kuwait Oil
Scope & Content:
The correspondence in the volume relates to three main areas of discussion: The Kuwait Oil Company's negotiations with the Shaikh of Kuwait, Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ, for the granting of an oil concession in Kuwait. Included within the volume are copies of both the draft concession agreement, in ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
7 Feb 1934-30 Apr 1934
Extent:
1 volume (242 folios)

33. IOR/R/15/1/643

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/643
Title:
File 86/1 VII (D 101) Kuwait Oil
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence between the Political Agent at Kuwait (Harold Richard Dickson); Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Trenchard Craven Fowle); His Majesty's Minister at Jedda (Sir Andrew Ryan); Officials in the India and Foreign Offices (including Sir Louis Kershaw, John Gil...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
9 Apr 1934-30 Jun 1934
Extent:
1 volume (249 folios)

34. IOR/R/15/1/644

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/644
Title:
86/1 VIII Kuwait Oil D 106
Scope & Content:
The correspondence in the volume is primarily concerned with the ongoing negotiations between the Kuwait Oil Company (led by Frank Holmes and Archibald Chisholm) and the Shaikh of Kuwait, Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ, which were suspended in June 1934 following disagreements between the partie...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
1 Jul 1934-31 Dec 1934
Extent:
1 volume (346 folios)

35. IOR/R/15/1/646

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/646
Title:
86/1 X Kuwait Oil (D 131)
Scope & Content:
The file primarily contains correspondence between the Shaikh of Kuwait (Shaikh Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ), the Political Agent at Kuwait (Harold Dickson and Gerald Simpson DeGaury), the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf (Trenchard Craven Fowle and Percy Gordon Loch), the India Office (John C...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, and Persian
Date Range:
24 Apr 1935-13 May 1937
Extent:
1 file (240 folios)

36. IOR/R/15/2/295

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/295
Title:
File 8/7 I Jidda Intelligence Reports
Scope & Content:
The file contains intelligence reports on the Kingdom of Hejaz, Najd and its Dependencies (after September 1932, Saudi Arabia) written by the British Legation at Jeddah. Between July 1931 and December 1932 the reports are issued every two months, with the exception of the January-March 1932 and...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Jul 1931-Dec 1934
Extent:
1 file (266 folios)

37. IOR/R/15/2/461

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/461
Title:
11/1 TREATMENT OF BAHARNA IN HASA AND QATIF
Scope & Content:
This file contains two letters listed in the file notes at the rear of the file. The first, on folio 4, dated 30 March 1933, is from Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Gordon Loch, Political Agent at Bahrain, to Lieutenant-Colonel Trenchard Craven Fowle, the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf, concern...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
28 Nov 1914-5 Mar 1950
Extent:
1 file (5 folios)

38. IOR/R/15/2/464

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/464
Title:
'11/4 ANTI-SAUDI ACTIVITIES'
Scope & Content:
This file concerns possible anti-Saudi activities in the Persian Gulf. It contains correspondence between the Political Resident in the Persian Gulf at Bushire, the Political Agent at Bahrain, and Charles Dalrymple Belgrave. In addition, there are copies of correspondence with Sir Andrew Ryan, A...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
12 Jul 1933-01 May 1939
Extent:
1 file (25 folios)

39. IOR/R/15/2/465

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/465
Title:
'11/5 Negotiations with Ibn Saud regarding Boundaries of Saudi Arabia'
Scope & Content:
The file comprises correspondence, memoranda, maps, and other papers relating to questions over the position of Saudi Arabia’s south-eastern frontier adjoining Qatar and the Trucial Coast shaikhdoms, notably Abu Dhabi. Negotiations over the frontier had long been deferred by British Government o...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
Mar 1944-4 Sep 1949
Extent:
1 file (212 folios)

40. IOR/R/15/2/469

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/2/469
Title:
'11/7 SAUDI ARMS REGULATIONS'
Scope & Content:
This file concerns new arms regulations concerning the prohibition of the import, sale, carrying and possession of arms in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia, which were issued by Ibn Saud [‘Abd al-Raḥmān bin ‘Abd al-‘Azīz bin Fayṣal Āl Sa‘ūd] in October 1935. The correspondence in the file is between ...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
10 Jan 1936-15 Apr 1936
Extent:
1 file (34 folios)